Setup Free Open Source ERP application for Centos 6 [ ERPNext]

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Setup Free Open Source ERP application for Centos 6 [ ERPNext]

ERPNext is a free open source ERP software developed by Frappé Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and is built on MariaDB database system using a Python based server-side framework.The pre-requsite for installing ERPNext is to install the Frappe Bench, the command-line package manager and site manager for Frappe Framework. Once you have installed Frappe Bench navigate to the bench folder to setup erpnext.

Also check if you have already an instance of MySQL and httpd is running in your system. You can either stop or remove these two items as the installer script will install MariaDB and NGINX. If you keep these two (MySQL/httpd) running and proceed with the installation, the installer will exit in the middle of installation process while trying to configure MariaDB and NGINX.

1. Setup frappe for Open Source ERP

Create a directory by the name erpnext inside /opt and download the installer script there. The important point to remember is that we will run the installer script as root and it will create a new user “frappe” for future configuration/maintenance and updates.

Next we need to configure the sites using the user “frappe” that requires sudo privileges and do it by adding “frappe” in the wheel group.

[root@demohost erpnext]# usermod -aG wheel frappe

2. Install Open Source ERP [ERPNext]

The installer script will create a default site by the name site1.local. To create a new site that matches with your domain copy site1.local to your new site. The advantage of copying site1.local to your desired site name is that it will not create a new database.